Five Element Acupuncture

Five element acupuncture works with the essence and individual nature of each patient.

There is evidence that the use of acupuncture goes back to 1000 BC. As a healthcare system, it has been continuously refined; it forms the main medical intervention in some countries.

Acupuncture may help in 3 main areas:

Long term conditions – here the symptoms are continuous or appear periodically over a long time period. Conventional medicine often struggles to manage the condition; using acupuncture in conjunction with your regular medical management may mean that medication use may be reduced, or even stopped (always with your doctor’s permission).

Preventative – acupuncture is used to keep the whole body in balance in terms of energy patterns. Imbalances in energy may show up before the symptoms of illness do. Using acupuncture promotes a sense of good health and may prevent illness from occurring.

Beyond Illness – using acupuncture to help you achieve your ultimate potential for total spiritual, mental and physical wellbeing. This style of acupuncture can be used to correct and address fundamental imbalances in an individual and can help ailments not responsive to western medicine.

How does Acupuncture work?

Just as the blood flows around the body in channels called arteries and veins, so acupuncture is based on the belief that energy flows along channels called meridians. In this system, energy is called qi (pronounced chee) and is the life force of all living beings. Problems with qi lead to the symptoms experienced in illness and disease.

The acupuncturist’s job is to keep the channels open to allow the qi balance and flowing. When this happens the health is restored and the individual experiences wellbeing.

The Treatment

Your first visit to our acupuncturist, Victor Ong, lasts around 90 minutes; during this time a detailed and comprehensive case history will be taken and a full assessment of your energy pattern will be carried out. The resulting diagnosis is used to form the basis of your treatment plan.

Subsequent treatments last around an hour and generally take place weekly. Improvement is generally felt by around three to four treatments.

The treatment interval is then lengthened to suit the individual.

Hate needles?

There are some people that have a real fear or at least a strong dislike of needles; others are very sensitive to them. Acupuncture techniques can still be used on such individuals – in these cases specially shaped crystals can be used instead. Results have been shown to be very similar using this alternative technique.